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If only you people could follow directions a memoir

"If Only You People Could Follow Directions is a spellbinding debut by Jessica Hendry Nelson. In linked autobiographical essays, Nelson has reimagined the memoir with her thoroughly original voice, fearless writing, and hypnotic storytelling. At its center, the book is the story of three people...

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Main Author: Nelson, Jessica Hendry.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, [2014].
Subjects:
Nelson, Jessica Hendry.
Nelson, Jessica Hendry > Family.
Children of drug addicts > Biography.
Children of parents with mental disabilities > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: A letter to Eric
  • Here, fishy fishy
  • Pretend we fell asleep
  • The whitest winter light
  • The present
  • A second of startling regret
  • Fall
  • The dollhouse
  • Height of the land
  • She feeds them
  • In New York
  • If only you people could follow directions
  • Notes on the never ending
  • The end of the earth.

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